[78-L] Dick Clark gone

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Apr 18 13:19:46 PDT 2012


Betcha Freed and "The Boys" are waiting up in Rock and Roll Heaven to beat the 
bejeezus out of him.

dl

On 4/18/2012 4:11 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
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> I knew some people who worked for him when he had his syndication business. They said that he was extremely cheap. A real bottom line guy who paid employees as little as he could get away with and whose facade of niceness on the air hid a cold-hearted interior. I also hated that he never permitted acts on AB to play live. Everything had to be lip-synched to save money on production costs, licensing, performance royalties - he knew the business but I'll bet he still had the first dollar he ever earned.
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> Cary Ginell
>
>
>> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:07:22 -0400
>> From: mikedaley at gmail.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Dick Clark gone
>>
>> One of his most impressive achievements was managing to come out of
>> the payola hearings smelling like a rose, while his counterpart Alan
>> Freed's career was destroyed.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:59 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>>> http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/04/18/report-dick-clark-dies-at-age-82/
>>>
>>> dl
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